2 papers
quant-ph2019
Universality Classes of Stabilizer Code Hamiltonians
Zack Weinstein, Gerardo Ortiz, Zohar Nussinov
Stabilizer code quantum Hamiltonians have been introduced with the intention of physically realizing a quantum memory because of their resilience to decoherence. In order to analyz…
cond-mat.stat-mech2018
Absence of Finite Temperature Phase Transitions in the X-Cube Model and its Generalization
Zack Weinstein, Emilio Cobanera, Gerardo Ortiz +1
We investigate thermal properties of the X-Cube model and its `clock-type' (X-Cube) extension. In the latter, the elementary spin-1/2 operators of the X-Cube mo…